Hello everyone!
I don't expect to get much response from this but I am a retired veteran and have always been a fan of "The Bends" album and particularly, "Fake Plastic Trees."
The music is amazing and can literally transport you to another world. The lyrics obviously portray a great story, but trying to identify with that story when in a pensive mood and listening to the song, I found myself singing lyrics to it that applied more to a story that I am familiar with. Something many veterans have struggled with after returning home from war.
Please read and I hope you all enjoy:
Vain, Tragic Fall
A cupful of coffee it seems. Till the smell so much stronger it brings. And she knows then... he fell.
Once again off the wagon, so... she confronts him, but he swears, "No." And that's when the fighting... begins.
It wears her out. It wears her out. It wears her out. It wears her out.
'Cause she lives with a broken man, who no longer has loving hands. And just leaves her... to cry.
He served in the infantry, while at war in the Middle East, and started drinking... to cope.
And it wears him out. It wears him out. It wears him out. It wears...
He used to have everything. Perfect life, wife, and family. My vain, tragic fall.
But I can't help the feeling I could stop her from leaving, if I just took... her help.
And it wears me out. It wears me out. It wears me out. It wears me out.
And if I could be who you wanted. If I could be who you wanted... all the time. All the time.
(In place of Thom singing, "Oh") But I fall.
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